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Animal House on Acid is a memoir by Beverly A. Potter, a neighbor of the most notorious housing unit on the face of the Earth.” Barrington Hall, a large student-run co-op on the south side of the University was Berkeley’s last outpost of the 60s. Barringtonians, as they called themselves, held fast to the culture of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll long after it had ceased to be fashionable. Inside Barrington Hall, youth rebellion never grew old, because each year it was replenished with a new crop of 18-year-olds sorry to have missed the 60s. But Barrington became a victim of its own mythology: with a house culture dedicated to outrage, it eventually outraged all, even its natural allies.

Animal House on Acid is packed with stories: it's Potter's memoir of a truly long, strange trip, which she tells in a scrapbook-like format, composed of local newspaper stories, city reports, incident notes, posters, and photographs, all of it stitched together with Potter's retelling of wild tales  wild even by Berkeley standards.

Beverly A. Potter, PhD, has written numerous self-help books. She holds a doctorate from Stanford University in counseling psychology and a master of science from San Francisco State University in vocational rehabilitation counseling. This is her first memoir. Her offices are in Oakland, CA.